Chapter 1230: The Third Sovereign's Retreat, How Does He Know So Many Divine Abilities and Spells!

Flawless attacks came from all three hundred and sixty-five degrees around Lu Ding.

Those ferocious demon hands seemed as if they would crush him to pieces.

In the last sliver of opening.

The Third Sovereign saw the smile on Lu Ding's face.

BOOM!!!

[Celestial Shift]

He vanished in an instant.

Directly teleported behind the Third Sovereign.

A blast of hot air swept out, passing through the Third Sovereign's hair, making the hairs on his neck stand on end.

DUCK!!!!!!!

Lu Ding chopped across with his hand as a blade, the Slash Attack raging wild, cleaving across the sky, hanging a hideous scar spanning the cosmos on the backdrop of azure sky.

The Third Sovereign ducked, bent low, didn't look back.

The clothes on his back exploded open, revealing a bizarre pattern array on his entire back, facing Lu Ding.

Red sand sprayed out thick, dissolving bone and corroding soul!!!

Rolling up a sky-covering sandstorm.

The heavens and earth turned red!!!!

Some spectators shouted.

"The Ten Absolute Arrays, it's one of the Third Sovereign's Ten Absolute Arrays, the Red Sand Array!!!!"

"Why on earth did these two start fighting? Weren't they just fine a moment ago? How did it suddenly turn into a life-and-death struggle!?"

The crowd didn't understand, could it be that the world of the strong was simply flipping faces at the slightest disagreement?

High above in the firmament.

Lu Ding faced the Red Sand Array head-on.

He raised his palm, meeting it head-on with [Human King's Loose Hands].

A massive handprint, devouring light, pushing forward with darkness to crush and suppress.

DONG!!!!

It forcibly stopped and repelled the sky-rolling red sand, smashing it to pieces in midair, rendering it powerless.

The Third Sovereign seized the opportunity to cast a spell.

"Boundless Heavenly Light, explode!!!!"

Both hands formed the lotus seal, raised high to the sky.

The dharma seal in the heavens, descending light tribulation, welcomed to bombard Lu Ding.

BOOM!!!!!

Lu Ding formed a seal in hand, [Torture-Crushing Great Rotation], that gaping bloody maw with sharp fangs and jagged teeth, opened in Lu Ding's palm, directly facing the Third Sovereign's Boundless Heavenly Light, devouring!!!!!

His other hand pushed back a divine ability.

[Mysterious Path Transformation Palm]

One palm strike toward the place where the Third Sovereign stood.

Space shattered to pieces like flowers in a mirror and moon in water, howling astral wind blowing out from the cracked space.

The Third Sovereign used body techniques, dodging and maneuvering.

Triggering Lu Ding's [Shadow Follows Form], the latter half-step stepped in the exact same movement technique as the Third Sovereign, accompanied by [Step of Embraced Immortality, Ascending the Throne], treading upon the multitudes of immortals, the height of heaven and earth, beneath him!

One foot flattening the plain!!!!

A mighty momentum.

As Lu Ding's foot landed, a bizarre vibration frequency caused space to collapse inch by inch toward the Third Sovereign, directly blasting him away.

Traces of blood seeped from his mouth!!!

The Third Sovereign's expression was grave.

Hard to fight!!!

Normal people would always have habitual spells and divine abilities they'd use repeatedly in battle, which would give the Third Sovereign excellent opportunities to adapt.

But the Lu Ding before him, like himself, was throwing out one move after another, all fresh and new, not a single one repeated.

Aside from that bizarre and terrifying Slash Attack.

Lu Ding had almost never used the same second move.

From his life origin, the Third Sovereign could sense that Lu Ding was not old.

But how did he know so many divine abilities and spells, and each one maxed out in proficiency, at his fingertips, without the slightest recovery lag!!

It made the Third Sovereign fight with frustration!

The only technique used multiple times was the Slash Attack, yet he didn't dare meet it head-on, the sense of danger giving him a sixth sense that taking it would mean death.

Unable to take it, unable to adapt to it.

Moreover, that bizarre teleportation divine ability of his could actually escape from the Myriad Transformations Demon Hand. That meant, if Lu Ding wanted to leave, the Third Sovereign couldn't keep him.

Only after entering the Thunder Roar Hall, under the influence of the Thunder Roar Hall's Arrays, did the Third Sovereign think Lu Ding wouldn't be able to escape, and only he could get out. At that point, he could settle Lu Ding inside. Even if he couldn't win, he could still run.

Here on the outside.

What the hell kind of fight is this!

No more fighting!!!

The Third Sovereign raised his hand: "Brother Lu, hold on. Let's call our sparring match here. Regarding Mu Xuecheng, I won't involve myself anymore."

Lu Ding, who had just formed [Nipping Poison, Phoenix Piercing Flower], stopped his movements.

It wasn't that Lu Ding didn't want to fight either.

The truth was, he had also seen that this Third Sovereign was tough enough. When an expert makes a move, you immediately know if there's substance. This Third Sovereign was absolutely, from Lu Ding's past to now, the most genuinely capable enemy he had ever encountered.

Wanting to keep him here wasn't easy.

At least out here, the heavens and earth were vast. If he wanted to run, it probably wouldn't be easy to hold him down.

Recklessly activating [Black Prison of Death's Body] was also risky. It wasn't that Lu Ding was afraid he couldn't win, but he was afraid, what if it became a war of attrition, dragging on for days, tens of days, or even longer, then what?

Don't look at how Lu Ding always resolved battles quickly.

That was because his skill set was well-matched.

And [Way of the Jinche] specialized in punishing all kinds of defiance.

Under normal circumstances, at their realm, in battles where many gaps weren't very large and external factors weren't many, fights usually dragged on for a very long time!

Unless Lu Ding used it.

The charging [Way of the Jinche] Blood Frost!

But that thing had been charging for a very long time, its power enormous. Lu Ding truly wasn't willing to use it on the Third Sovereign. He had to guard against what Elder Shui mentioned before, someone coming from the First Circle.

By the time it finished charging, one blade could cleave the very heavens open.

He'd like to see just how big a smoke pipe someone descending from above would need to be to stamp it out.

So once they entered the Thunder Roar Hall, everyone would be trapped inside unable to leave, only he could come and go freely, then he'd slowly deal with this bastard Third Sovereign. Even if he couldn't win, he could still run with Lei Xiao.

So Lu Ding spoke: "It's just as Third Brother said, you've considered it thoroughly."

Upon hearing this, Mu Xuecheng said: "Xunfeng... you... what do you mean, are you truly disregarding the bond between us from those years ago?"

Hearing this, the Third Sovereign took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his disgust: "There is no bond between you and me. Me speaking up for you, fighting Brother Lu for you, is already the limit of what I can do. I have let Brother Lu down already."

"Now you still speak to me of bonds?"

The Third Sovereign laughed in disbelief, shaking his head: "Between you and me, all that remains is the kindness I showed you. Where is the affection you showed me?"

"Have you ever repaid me?"

"Beyond the escort along the road, afterward, did you ever appreciate me? You couldn't wait to draw the line, which let me see your true face long ago."

"You took everything as a matter of course, and now you speak to me of bonds? You are nothing but a ghost in human skin."

Mu Xuecheng seemed as if her sore spot had been struck.

"What do you mean I took everything as a matter of course? Did I ask you to escort me? Did I beg you?! It was you yourself, clearly it was you yourself who wanted to do it."

The Third Sovereign recalled those years: "That was because, before your mother died, she begged me, begged me to take good care of you. But I did not believe I could care for you well, so I did not agree. After your mother died, you learned of your father's whereabouts."

"You wanted to find your father. My thinking was, since I couldn't take good care of you, then I'd send you to your father to care for you."

"I don't owe your mother anything. At most, my body's mother was merely a concubine-maid to your mother."

"I also do not owe you anything either."